Sash cord and securer



(No Model.)

W. H. NAYLOR. SASH CORD AND SBGURBR.

No. 476,163. l Patented May s1, 1892.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

WILLIAM I-I. NAYLOR, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THENAYLOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF OAMDEN, NEV JERSEY.

SASH CORD AND SECURER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 476,163, dated May 31,1892.

Application filed August 2l, 1890. Serial No. 362,654. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLTAM II. NAYLOR,a subject of the Queen of GreatBritain and Ireland, and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsyl- 5 Vania,have invented certain Improvements in Oords for Sashes and for otherPurposes, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an exceedingly strong anddurable twisted sash- Io cord which will not stretch or untwist. Thisobject I attain in the following manner, ref` erence being had to theaccom panyiu g d rawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of myimproved cord intended for use as a sash-cord, and Fig. 2 is a viewshowing its application lo a window sash and weight.

Ordinary cords or ropes are objectionable for many purposes, because inorder to attach zo them an eye, knot, loop, or other connection must beformed at each end for securing the various attachments or forpreventing untwisting of the cord, and in the case of a sashcord squareweights must be employed in order to prevent the cord from untwisting.

In carrying out my invention I first make a twisted cord with an eye orloop at each end and then double this cord and again twist it so as toform a single eye or loop at one end 3o of the cord and a double eye orloop at the opposite end, and to prevent untwisting of the oord thisdouble eye or loop is engaged by a hook, ring, or other retainer. A cordof this character is extremely strong and durable,

owing to the doubling and twisting of the cord' during its manufacture,and the cord will not stretch materially in use.`

In the drawings, A represents the cord, having at one end the single eyeaand at the op- 4o posite end the two eyes b b', before referred lo,these two eyes being engaged by the loop d of the hook B, whereby theeyes are retained and the cord prevented from untwisting, this loophaving been introduced into the eyes during the process of manufactureof the cord, so that said eyes are pulled tightly upon the loop and theeasy removal of the loop is thereby prevented. When a cord thus made isintended for use as a sash-cord, it can be 5o readily applied, as shownin Fig. 2, that end of the cord having a single eye a being secured tothe sash-frame D by means of a hook, staple, or nail f, passed throughthe eye and into the sash, while the hook B engages with the usual eyeatthe upper end of the sashweight F. As the cord cannot untwist, a roundWeight may be used instead of the square weight now generally employed,and

as there is no material stretch in the cord and no elongation of thesame due to untwisting, 6o no rehanging of the sashes for the sake oftaking up slack in the cord is ever required. The roundweight, moreover,is preferable to the ordinary square weight, as it cannot become jammedin the weight-box as square weights sometimes do when they twistslightly so as to bring` their corners against the sides of the box.

It will be evident that a cord of the character described is much morereadily applied 7o to the sash than the usual cord, which has to bedrawn through recesses or openings in the sash-frame and then knotted soas to prevent it from being pulled out, and the formation of theserecesses or openings in the sash-frame is also rendered unnecessary. Itwill be evident, however, that my invention is not limited tosash-cords, but may be used for other purposes, and in place of thesimple hook B a ring or a snap-hook may be employed, and, So if desired,such rings or hooks may be used at both ends of the cords in some cases.

Having thus described my invention, I claim aud desire to secure byLetters Patent- 8 5 As anew article of manufacture, the withindescribedsash-cord, said cord being twisted so as to form a single eye at one endand two eyes side by side at the opposite end, a hook or equivalentretainer passing through the 9o two eyes at the one end and boundtherein by the twist iu the cord, said hook securing the two eyestogether, preventing the untwisting ot the cord, substantially asspecified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

lWILLIAM H. NAYLOR. Witnesses:

EUGENE. ELTEEIOH, HARRY SMITH.

